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My unexpectedly awesome purchase has been a warm air blowing boot dryer. It's simply brilliant.
Come in from a ride or run, hose down shoes, pop on the dryer and boom, 60mins later dry and sweet smelling shoes. During the snow in was on constantly for boots and gloves.
I genuinely wouldn't be without one now.
So, what have you bought which is more awesome than that?
It's a rucksack, so falls at the awesome hurdle, but it's really nice quality for the price - and free delivery.
https://www.oakley.com/en-gb/product/FOS900302?variant=8056153164412
Ebike!
This. I've used it almost every day since March and spent hundreds of hours fingering away on it.
Boringly, my home office setup.
A proper office chair, laptop stand, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Made the many hours working from home much more comfortable.
Exceeded all expectations:
- Neck bends however you like and stays bent
- Single charge lasts for aeons
- Touch control works like a charm, no more feeling about for sharp little switches
- Dimmable
- Choose from amber, warm white or cool white
- clip is sensibly wide and has a strong spring
- Also has a grippy flat base so doubles-up as a mini table-lamp
Couldn’t be happier! I use it to clip on a book (doh!), also as a bedside lamp, and also as a soft night light to illuminate a drum kit when practising. It also works very well as an inspection light for dog’s earholes. Also have clipped it on to my collar angled down as a ‘take dog out to poo at night, light’, leaving. both hands free to bag poop! Also useful to faff around house in dead of night looking for lost things because I’m now (apparently) an old person who can’t sleep without first locating 2 part epoxy I mean my rucksack the good Tiger Balm, not the weak knockoff stuff.
A pair of Audio Pro A26 speakers. Much better than a soundbar for movies and a great upgrade from a single C5 for music. As sad as it sounds they also have a really nice remote. Nice hefty chunk of brushed aluminium.
A flickering thing that simulates a TV that deters burglars; the Planet X Tempest wasn't too bad either.
A Nintendo Switch
£15 Gumtree special desk a week before lockdown started as our company booted us out the office ahead of the curve.
@sharkattack - that’s a lovely bass. I had a Jazz Master years ago. Loved the sound and the thin neck. Best bass I owned and wish I’d kept it. Only downside was it went out of tune if you looked at it funny. I blame the huge lovely machine heads
If by this year you mean 2021 then it would be the only thing I've bought online, a Mystic PFD for use on my paddle board. If you mean in the last 12 months then it would be my Fanatic inflatable SUP.
Broccoli, love the stuff.
Full face dust extraction hood. Blows filtered air across the face and keeps you cool as welll.
Have I worn it as much as i'm supposed to and the entire reason for spending so much on such a thing ?, have I heck 😆 😳
Which boot dryer do you have? I'm a bit underwhelmed by mine which I've had for years. If I run it for 4-5 hours my shoes may get dry. It's possible this is because I'm using it in a cold garage.
A Westbeach sweatshirt off of Sportpursuit for £15. So cozy and comfy, perfect WFH wear 😊
Either my Kona Sutra LTD (in the last 12 months) or my Action Blanket in 2021.
Superficial, it is one of these.
Beer, lots of it 😀
Cube Editor, MRRP was £1600 i bagged one for £1000 now retailing for £1900.
Marin dsx1.....bought on a bit of a whim after reading a grand total of 1 stw user report. It's absolutely got me loving riding a bike again after over 5 years away!
"Strong Shit" coffee bags from Amazon... Might become my 38cm Primavera bars, if I can get around to fitting them.
My office pot plant, a Calathea Orbifola. Not killed it yet!
https://www.leafenvy.co.uk/collections/all/products/calathea-orbifolia
Considering non essential shops are shut then surely nearly all purchases are online.
Mine is a Shark stick vac. So much better than Dyson
Beer and lots of just like Woody
Also magnetic led lights for the kitchen cupboards
New telly and fancy new cabinet for it to go on!
My Coleman event shelter, some carabiner clips, some threaded sleeve inserts and some eye bolts.
It meant I could fix the shelter to the decking and have an outdoor room that stayed up all summer.
Ah, ^ just reminded me, I have a joint first. The other is a Mil-Tech flecktarn poncho/tarp. Now am 100% waterproof. Have some alu tent-poles from an old Vango that I plan to cut down and use to create an ‘alpha tent’ from the poncho.
Hopefully will make a nice lightweight bikepacking and hiking option
A gilet...not a riding one, got a few of those...just an every day insulated gilet.
Should’ve gotten one sooner, I’m practically living in it.
A 12*8 express power shed. Partly because it's a really neat way of buying a modular shed that you can self assemble in a day and you get to tweak the layout as you go.
Mainly because I have chucked all my tools in it and I now have the old log cabin style shed for relaxing in away from the house and doing hobbies.
Hopefully will make a nice lightweight bikepacking and hiking option
I'd take the weight penalty and take a decent tent.
I'm either my wee bitmi drum pad and some sticks, gonny start learning the drums. Or my sony xm4's.
I’d take the weight penalty and take a decent tent.
Yeah i'm not really seeing where the advantage is there. I get a poncho from a waterproof layer but that looks rubbish compared to a 3x3 tarb and single pole.?
New smart TV - 4k is awesome!!
And these LifeLine Pro Sliding T Bar Hex Set - great quality and a really good fit.
I’d take the weight penalty and take a decent tent.
I’ve got that option also, but for a summer-autumn one-nighter or even a spot of rainy afternoon r&r/picnic, etc etc
I like the thought of a no-fuss emergency shelter. Was purchased primarily as a poncho which it excels at, so nothing to lose 👍🏼
The Tefal Optigrill XL ..Yeah Baby.
We toasted our way through the dark months 🙂
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Custom paint job 🙂
Only based on purdyness.
ZTTO 9-50 cassette. Probably made of cheese but purdy cheese.
Either my shoe dryer, or my house extension.
One rather pricier than the other. Both rather good.
Some touring skis right at the start of the year from the helpful folk at Braemar Mountain Sports. Made all the better by tho volumes of snow we had in the Pentlands this year!
Close second is a Fyne Ales mini-cask club subscription... Mmm... Jarl...
"This year" 2021, or the last 12 months?
i didn't actually order it myself online,and it hasn't arrived yet,but a planet x spitfire ti road bike 🚴
i seriously cannot wait to get it and start riding 😀
It’s only March so I’m not sure but my nephew was fair chuffed with the PS5 I managed to get him.
A kitten